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Damian Yerrick
Libertarian,
pro-life (not a contradiction)
Doubts some macroevolution conclusions.
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This user has been influenced by too many dialects of English to use one orthography, vocabulary and grammar consistently. |
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Ending a sentence with a preposition is something this user is okay with. |
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It's really not that hard to use each word in its proper manner. |
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This user does not smoke. |
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This user is an expert C programmer. |
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This user kicks butt at Tetris. |
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This user enjoys playing spit. |
Santa is an anagram of Satan. |
Damian Yerrick (b. October 1, 1980) is originally from Fort Wayne, Indiana, and graduated with a 4-year degree in computer science at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. He contributes to Wikipedia, a free encyclopedia.
Contact: User talk:Damian Yerrick | e-mail | AIM: PinocchioPoppins | ICQ: 45269874
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[edit] History
[edit] The E2 era
I started on Everything2. I found Wikipedia on September 24, 2001, and for a few months bounced ideas back and forth between the two projects, until E2 moved squarely in a subjective direction. If you want to see one or more of my E2 writeups merged into the corresponding Wikipedia article, leave a message, making sure to mention the specific writeup.
[edit] Early contributions to Wikipedia
A long time ago, Wikipedia had few articles and many red links. I did my part to change that. Here are some of the first things I did:
- Started Everything2, mask work, denormalization, ClearType, PackBits, cyclic redundancy check, parallax scrolling, audio timescale-pitch modification, Spellevator, Zoop, Dr. Mario (many of them being imports from my E2 writeups)
- Expanded Copyright Term Extension Act, Tetris, tetromino, Apple II family, Game Boy Advance, some other video game console articles, a few telecommunication and data compression articles, tengwar
- Overhauled countable, Common phrases in different languages
- Rescued Muslim language
- Corrected part-of-speech of trademarks in Java programming language, Unix, Oreo (which may likely have since been reverted)
- Made images for Sierpinski carpet, Sierpinski triangle
- Suggested a system that led to Category:Wikipedians by location
- Wrote pseudocode for Arithmetic-geometric mean
And then I was hooked. As of December 2006, I have made over 4,000 edits in the main namespace of Wikipedia. You can see a list of my latest contributions or, if you use a web browser that conforms to recent web standards, count them yourself.
[edit] Uncyclopedia
The
potato, the official tuber of Uncyclopedia.
For a brief period, I contributed to Uncyclopedia under the name Tepples. But I never really understood Uncyclopedia, nor vice versa. There is some brilliant satiric prose in Uncyclopedia, but there's also crap (just as on Wikipedia), and I could never figure out the "right way" to clean up Uncyclopedia's flavor of crap without getting reverted.
Resistance to fortifying shaky foundations. I'm more a fan of satire and parody than nonsense, and I believe that good comedy should lie on a foundation of fact. The news-related monologues of late night TV comedians (such as Jon Stewart, Jay Leno, and David Letterman) follow this. Uncyclopedia has humor guidelines that appear to recommend this to an extent, but it does not do so consistently. In fact, when I tried to put a stronger factual foundation under some of the pages, I got a greeting on my user talk page that appeared to encourage me to go back to Wikipedia.
Stubs get speedily deleted. Unlike Wikipedia, which encourages creating stubs, or short treatments of a new article intended for someone else to discover and develop, Uncyclopedia frowns on stubs: "At Wikipedia, they can take that stub, place in under their pillow, and during the night, the magical fact-fairy will come and turn it into a real article. That doesn't happen here." The process on Uncyclopedia (and on Everything2) is that one editor takes an article from a blank page to a stand-alone article, not allowing it to rest at Stub.
In-jokes. In addition, there doesn't appear to have been a real effort to clean out the inside jokes from the main namespace of Uncyclopedia, even though the admins claim to "pride ourselves in humor that can be understood and appreciated by most people, or at least a very large number of people." At least Wikipedia tries to keep its own insiderisms to the Wikipedia: namespace.
[edit] Awards
See User:Damian Yerrick/Barnstars
[edit] Licensing
I acknowledge practical problems with the GNU Free Documentation License and thus agree to multi-license all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:
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Multi-licensed with all versions of the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike License |
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| I agree to multi-license my text contributions, unless otherwise stated, under the GFDL and the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license version 1.0, version 2.0, version 2.5, and all future versions of the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license. Please be aware that other contributors might not do the same, so if you want to use my contributions under the Creative Commons terms, please check the CC dual-license and Multi-licensing guides. |
